The Criterion Collection

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

How many directors are there that you own all of the films they have directed?

A few ground rules:

- Short films do not count, you only have to have their feature length films.
- Lost films do not count
- Director has to have directed at least 5 feature films
- If their latest film hasn't had a home release yet it doesn't (so, if you have all of Tarantino's films, but don't have Hateful Eight, that's Ok).

Anyone else care to share?

Brad Bird (the Iron Giant will be mine soon...)
Christopher Nolan
David Fincher
George Lucas
James Cameron
JJ Abrams (Star Wars will be mine...)
Michael Bay (13 Hours will be mine...)
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino (Hateful Eight will be mine soon...)
The Wachowskis
Zack Snyder

I want to have all of Peter Jackson's films, but I've been waiting for Blu-Rays on Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles. And then there's one I never heard of before (Forgotten Silver?).

I have all but a few of Guillermo Del Toro's films (I will get Crimson Peak eventually, haven't seen his really early works).

I might have all of M Night Shyamalan's work now, but I will part with The Last Airbender, so that chain will be broken.

I think I'm only a couple away from being a David Lynch completist. Wouldn't mind having all his work.

I will actively (or blindly) collect from Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Stanley Kramer, Paul Verhoeven, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergei Eisenstein, and a few other dudes. Doubt I'll ever own all their films though. Most everybody else I seem to cherry pick off of.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

I never see much talk about Black Orpheus and since there is a sale going on just wanted to give a recommendation for anyone on the fence.

This film really got me by surprise the first time I saw it and it is one of those where the music is so good that it gave me one of those special experiences where to this day just by hearing the music my brain goes back to a specific memory of feelings from when I first saw it, not sure if I can explain it well.

While most if not all performers are amateur I hardly even noticed or else it hardly matters in this, they all show some great dance moves at the least.

I watched this before Orpheus and I couldn't get much into that (to be fair I have never been able to connect much with Cocteau work), it's funny how two french directors conceived such different adaptations with the same source material although this is a much looser one.

Also I have never read about a Brazilian point of view of this film, so I can't be sure how accurate the culture is portrayed as I know a foreign perspective doesn't always lend well to make an authentic picture.

Anyway for me this is just a powerful tragic story that in it's darkest aspects is very atmospheric and told with an amazing soundtrack that will be forever ingrained in my mind, I mean not for nothing at the time it bested such films as Nazarin, 400 Blows, Hiroshima mon Amour for the Palme d'or, and Criterion's own The Bridge at the Oscars, even though I can see how in this day many see it as an injustice due to some of those films being much more popular or influential.

Originally Posted by Page14

I'm happy to see somebody give this film some respect. I think it might be the 2nd Criterion I ever bought ... on DVD back in the days when I didn't have a clue what Criterion was all about. It didn't take me too long to upgrade it to blu-ray. What drew me to it in the first place was that I read that it had a magnificent score ... like a pulse that starts at the beginning of the film and is constant throughout. (Like you, once I "heard" the movie, I can't forget the music). To me, it was, in a way, hypnotic. I haven't watched it in years and need to do something about that. (Oh, and it's very colorful too).

It's one of my favorites and I've sung its praises a few times on this forum. The colors, the music, and two of the most beautiful people-Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello-to ever appear in film. In a case of life imitating art, they died within a few weeks of one another.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Vinyl

Anyone get Burroughs: The Movie? What does everyone think of it? It looks really interesting but don't see many people here picking it up.

I bought it, yes. I didn't find anything too interesting about it.

It's private, it's intimate, and you learn a lot about the guy that probably wasn't published in mainstream publications, but I didn't particularly care for it.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

3 Women can't be recommended enough times. Brilliant on all levels.

Oh I agree completely. Having 3 Women many times is fantastic......and exhausting.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by oildude

Oh I agree completely. Having 3 Women many times is fantastic......and exhausting.

[theater dreamer]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

I was putting some new arrivals away on my shelves tonight, and i thought of a question in regard to my (and everyone else's) film collections.

How many directors are there that you own all of the films they have directed?

A few ground rules:

- Short films do not count, you only have to have their feature length films.
- Lost films do not count
- Director has to have directed at least 5 feature films
- If their latest film hasn't had a home release yet it doesn't (so, if you have all of Tarantino's films, but don't have Hateful Eight, that's Ok).

For me the directors on this list would be:

Akira Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Terrence Malick
Wong Kar Wai
Takeshi Kitano
Hayao Miyazaki

Anyone else care to share?

I don't own all the films yet of any major director. There are a select few where I can see this happening, however.

Stanley Kubrick. I lack five of his thirteen feature films: The Killing, Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut, Killer's Kiss, and Fear and Desire. I feel confident in saying I'll own all of these.

Terrence Malick. When Criterion releases The New World, that will give me five of his (currently) seven feature length films, leaving me Knight of Cups and To The Wonder short from his entire filmography.

Martin Scorsese. I absolutely love this man's work, as well as his knowledge of, and appreciation for, the history of film. By my count, I have ten of his films, and that count will grow substantially. But will I ever have every one of his major works? Time will tell. He has a more substantial filmography, which makes being a completionist difficult.

The problem with some directors, from the perspective of this discussion, is that they have done so many films. I absolutely love Bergman's work, and I'll eventually own all his major films, and a good chunk of his earlier works. To me, everything the man did is worth owning, even if it's just to see his evolution from one film to the next. I could say the same for Kurosawa, Ozu, and even a Roman Polanski.

Then I come to somebody like Steven Spielberg. I know people have varied opinions about his oeuvre, but I love his work. I have fifteen of his feature films. I probably won't own everything he's done (he's had some misses), but I will have a substantial percentage of it.

Billy Wilder is another director I could come close to a complete set. Witness for the Prosecution will give me eight of his films.

Then, there is Hitchcock. Refer to my comments on Ingmar Bergman. I have eight of Hitchcock's films, and there are at least fifteen others I want to get. That would represent a good chunk of his career as a director, but it wouldn't come close to his entire career's work. But, I'm sure as I begin reading Truffaut's book about his interviews with Hitch, that number will increase.

Interesting discussion!

[Ray Jackson]

Anyone here have an opinion as to whether The BRD Trilogy will be upgraded anytime soon?

I'm thinking about making a move for a mint condition dvd copy over yonder on the Criterion trade thread. Twood make me sick to fork over that kind of money for a dvd, only to hear an announcement about a blu-ray upgrade a couple months later.

And no...I don't have a region-free player.

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by oildude

Oh I agree completely. Having 3 Women many times is fantastic......and exhausting.

What about this:

[Show spoiler]

[jrsl76]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

What about this:

[Show spoiler]

Off topic with the joke, I'd really love this film to finally get an English friendly blu-ray release. I love this film.

[deepseababy]

Originally Posted by Arch Stanton

I stand by MD as being the scariest film I've ever seen. Not just in terms of pure shock moments/the two jump scares but as a whole experience of dread and doom.

I don't want to reveal anything in fear of spoiling the mystery and magic of the whole experience, but the 4am spur of the moment taxi to Club Silencio scene had me biting my nails. What is even better is the subtlety of the whole scene, with that "Hollywood is Hell" poster on the streetlight near where the girls hail the cab. You don't get better symbolism than that.

[Arch Stanton]

Originally Posted by deepseababy

I don't want to reveal anything in fear of spoiling the mystery and magic of the whole experience, but the 4am spur of the moment taxi to Club Silencio scene had me biting my nails. What is even better is the subtlety of the whole scene, with that "Hollywood is Hell" poster on the streetlight near where the girls hail the cab. You don't get better symbolism than that.

There's that incredible shot as well just after the girls go into the club where the camera sort of surges through the street up to the door like a phantom spirit or something. Terrifying, and entirely visual.

[Arch Stanton]

Also, how likely is it Winter Light will get a BD release in the near future?

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by diskspinner

Like if a director has made 30 films but only 3 available in US, can I list then?

I was thinking the whole filmography. Probably because it feeds into my collector mentality and because i enjoy the thrill of the hunt. Most directors have a film or two that is less available than others. For Kurosawa it's probably The Quiet Duel. For Ozu maybe The Munekata Sisters.

Also i can't believe i forgot to add Kubrick to my list.

[biglou114]

For entire filmographies I have (I think these are all of them):
Wes Anderson
The Coen Brothers (well Barton Finkand The Ladykillers are DVDs)
Buster Keaton (well, his Independent films)
Stanley Kubrick
Charles Laughton
Christopher Nolan (I can't explain why as I'm iffy on most of the films)
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino (which I can't explain, as I only like 50% of his output)
Jacques Tati
Edgar Wright

I'd say Hitchcock too, but I still am struggling to find good quality releases of the earlier British films.

One off from having Fincher, but I hate Fight Club, so it does not enter my collection.

[theater dreamer]

Originally Posted by biglou114

For entire filmographies I have (I think these are all of them):
Wes Anderson
The Coen Brothers (well Barton Finkand The Ladykillers are DVDs)
Buster Keaton (well, his Independent films)
Stanley Kubrick
Charles Laughton
Christopher Nolan (I can't explain why as I'm iffy on most of the films)
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino (which I can't explain, as I only like 50% of his output)
Jacques Tati
Edgar Wright

I'd say Hitchcock too, but I still am struggling to find good quality releases of the earlier British films.

One off from having Fincher, but I hate Fight Club, so it does not enter my collection.

You have all 29 of Spielberg's feature films?

[adamhopelies]

I have the complete oeuvres of a number of filmmakers. I think my most represented filmmaker is Godard, of whom I have over 50 discs (though that is by no means complete in any real sense, as at least 50 of his films have yet to be released on Blu-ray or DVD, tho I do have bootlegs of many of them). It's the same with Hitchcock, though I do own multiples with both of them. Varda and Rohmer are both pretty much collected in single box-sets, which is convenient, especially as they both made so many films. Scorsese, Tati, Rivette, Murnau, PTA, Wes Anderson, Malick and Pialat are just some others.

[biglou114]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

You have all 29 of Spielberg's feature films?

Well, 29 and 1/4

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by biglou114

Well, 29 and 1/4

That looks like a fun room.

[ThatOneGuy]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

That looks like a fun room.

Until you have to move... then it looks like a nightmare.

[TheLaughingMann]

Just bought Gate of Hell and Three Outlaw Samurai. So that bumps up my Criterion Collection to...10. Hidden Fortress later will make 11.

I am a Samurai film sellout. :-(